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GENEALOGY OF THE MORGAN FAMILY- 
DESCENDANTS OF DAVID MORGAN 



About the year 1720, the parents of David, Sarah and Daniel 
Morgan, with about twenty other Quaker families from Wales, emi- 
grated to America and first settled in Buclis county, Pennsylvania. 
About 1725, they moved across the Delaware river a few miles above 
Trenton and settled near its banks and opened up a farm in what is 
now Hunterdon county, New Jersey. David was born in 1709 and 
Sarah in 1711, while Daniel, the youngest child, was not born until 
1736, a difference of twenty-five years. David and Sarah evidently 
were born in Wales. Squire Boone, wlio married Sarah Morgan in 
1727, accounts for this difference (see annals of North Carolina by 
Petree) that three of their children died of scarlet fever, and a 
baby on ship board on voyage to America. Squire Boone, by his 
wife Sarah, had a large family, among whom was Daniel Boone, the 
father of Kentucky. 

David Morgan married in the year 1735 and had two sons by his 
first wife; Charles Rolla, born in 1786 and Ralph in 1738. Their 
mother died in the year 1743. After the death of his wife, David 
with his two sons, returned to his mother's house, his father having 
died in the year 1741. The two sons of David obtained a fair educa- 
tion; the youngest, Ralph, fitting himself for the vocation of a sur- 
veyor. In the year 1753, David Morgan and his brother, Daniel, had 
serious differences. The younger brother, Daniel, had grown up 
without a father's care, his father having died when he was but five 
years old and the boy had become incorrigible and became so in- 
censed at his brother and mother that he left home and went to Vir- 
ginia and hired out as a day laborer. By his industry and frugality, 
he soon became the owner of a wagon and team. His record from 
this time on can be found in all biographies and cyclopedias, the 
best being by James Graham, 1856, written from information obtain- 
ed from Morgan's private papers, etc., furnished by his grand- 
children. 

The Boones had, some years before this, all moved to North 
Carolina on the Yadkin river, near Holman's Ford. In 1754, the 
mother of David and Daniel Morgan, died and the same year David 



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Morgan married again— this time to a Mrs. Peporill, whose maiden 
name was Menafee, her husband having been killed by the Indians 
four months after her first marriage. The Morgans were at this time 
living at Will's Creek Settlement, a few miles from Fort Cumber- 
land. The next year we find the two brothers, Charles Rolla and 
lialph Morgan, joining Braddock's Expedition at Will's Creek as 
scouts. Daniel Morgan as a teamster, also accompanied this expe- 
dition. On the 28th day of June, 1755, the two Morgan brothers and 
a companion named Hicks, were captured by the French and In- 
dians in front of the advancing British army and taken to Fort D\\- 
quense. On the 9th of July, 1755, the three prisoners saw the French 
and Indians muster their forces and march out to meet the British 
Army, which they ambuscaded and defeated the same evening with 
terrible slaughter. The next morning they saw from their prison 
the Indians on the common, bedecked in British Officers' clothing, 
nearly every Indian with a red coat on, and to their horror, saw five 
prisoners run the gauntlet and afterwards burned at the stake with 
all the attendant tortures. In Feb. 1756, the two Morgans with their 
companion Hicks made their escape, securing but one rifle, and in at- 
tempting to cross the Monongahela river on a raft in the floating ice. 
Hicks was thrown from the raft and drowned. The two brothers ar- 
rived at Fort Cumberland in March after dreadful exposure, with 
frozen hands and feet, having to avoid the direct road and to use all 
their skill in woodcraft to evade pursuit. Their father, David Mor- 
gan, at this time, had taken refuge in the Fort. We can find no ev- 
idence that there was at this time any communication between Da- 
vid Morgan or his two sons and their Uncle Daniel. Daniel Morgan 
to the day of his death, refused to even admit that he had any sis- 
ters or brothers." The most he ever said of his ancestry was to the 
Reverend Hill, who nursed him in his last sickness, and that was 
that his parents were Welch and had emigrated, as stated, te Penn- 
sylvania and to New Jersey, where he was born. But there can be 
no question as to his relationship. 

The biographical sketch of Daniel Morgan by Dixon, in his 
"(Jlory of America", i^ublished in 1838, mentions relationship as giv- 
en in tliis article. He also relates that Daniel, on his return from 
the Saratoga campaign early in 1778, visited his brother David near 
their old home in New Jersey ; David having been compelled to flee 
from his home near Red Stone Fort owing to Indian depredations, 
where the year before he had engaged in a deadly combat with three 
Indians, and at that time was living in very straitened circumstan- 
ces. He further relates that Daniel offered him a farm if he would 
remove to his Virginia home. David, though old and poor, had his 



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priile and declined the offer. This, so far as can be learned, was the 
last intercourse between Daniel Morgan and his relatives. No in- 
ducement or questioning was ever able to elicit from him anything 
relative to his ancestry other than above stated. However, Squire 
Boone's statement in "North Carolina Annals" puts the matter be- 
yond dispute, and as Boone was the husband of Morgan's sister Sa- 
rah, he evidently knew what he related. 

Col. Frank Triplett who descended from the Pioneer Triplett 
that went to Kentucky in 1775, was intimate with the Boones and 
doubtless had correct data concerning them. He relates David 
Morgan's encounter with the Indians in his "Conquering the Wil- 
derness" published in 1883 and speaks of him as the brother of Gen- 
eral Daniel Morgan. General Daniel Morgan's biographer (Graham) 
states that the General intimated that his difference was with his 
father, but this is not possible, as his father had been dead twelve 
years w4ien he left his mother and home. The Morgans and Boones 
never at any time stated any other relationship than here given, but 
never, so far as can be learned, sought any reconciliation with the 
General after he became rich and distinguished as a military lead- 
er. With ttie exception of the General's visit to his brother David 
in 1778, we have no evidence of any further intercourse of David 
Morgan or his sons and the General. The following is a full account 
of David Morgan's combat with three Indians found in Col. Frank 
Triplett's "Conquering the Wilderness" published in 1888, Page 214: 

"The hero of our sketch was the brother of General Dan- 
iel Morgan, and settled upon tlie Monongahela about the be- 
ginning of the war of the lievolution. Being fully as venture- 
some as his more noted brother, he disdained the protection of 
a frontier post, and built his cabin at some distance from any 
other, to have, as he expressed it, 'plenty of elbow room.' The 
Indians were continually prowling about these exposed settle- 
ments, and one morning, after sending the younger children 
out to a field at some distance from the house, he became un- 
easy, and taking his rifle, hastened to the spot. 

Here he found nothing unusual, and giving them directions 
as to the method of conducting their work, he mounted the 
fence surrounding the field, and began a searching survey of 
the neighboring woods. While thus engaged he saw three In- 
dians gazing at them from the opposite side of the field, and 
bidding the children to fly to the house and have their mother 
bar the door, he took a hasty aim at one of the Indians and fired. 

The savage fell dead, although the shot was a long one, and 
Morgan immediately reloaded his rifle, and getting down from 
the fence, proceeded to cover the retreat of the children. The 
Indians, on the fall of their comrade, had started toward Mor- 
gan, but when his gun was loaded, became more circunaspect, 
and took to the trees, advancing from one to another, and thus 



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fMuloavorin<>- to cut Morjifan off from his liousp. Seeinp: that 
liis children could now make p,ood their escape, Morgan, a, man 
of some seventy years, l)e<ran his retreat, the two Indians press- 
inj? him closely. 

In his flight he passed through a portion of the forest where 
most of the trees were too small to furnish shelter against a 
rifle ball, and finding the Indians rapidly gaining upon him, he 
turned and ran back towards them to gain the cover of a large 
tree he had just passed. This movement took the Indians by 
surprise, and retreating, they took shelter behind some small 
trees, the largest they could find, but not of sufficient size to 
prevent Morgan from killing one of them, a part of the Indian's 
person being exposed. 

His gun was now empty, and again he turned inflight, the 
last Indian coming on atfuU speed. Had his aim been as good 
as that of the old borderer, the latter would have been doomed, 
for the Indian halted and fired, not even touching Morgan. 
Tliey were at last on equal terms, and the white man stood at 
bay, clubbing his rifle, and awaiting the approach of the sav- 
age, tomahawk in hand. The weapon of the savage cut off two 
fingers from Morgan's leffKhand, and the breach of the white 
man's rifle was shattered against the skull of the Indian. Both 
men were unarmed and at close quarters. The savage attempt- 
ed to draw his knife, and Morgan grappled with and threw him 
to the ground. 

The struggle continued for some minutes, and the strength 
of the old white man began to fail, and the robust young In- 
dian at last succeeded in turning him, and planting his knee on 
the breast of the under man, the Indian began searching for 
his knife, in order to terminate the combat. In this he might 
have been successful, but lie had on an apron, which he had 
stolen from some white woman, and his hands became entan- 
gled in its folds. Morgan, who had graduated in the rough-and- 
tumble school of the Virginia pugilist, was more than a match 
for the Indian upon the ground, and getting the fore-finger of 
his foe's right hand into his mouth, Morgan held on like grim 
death. The savage howled with pain, and used every endeav- 
or to release his finger, but in vain. 

Morgan now took a part in the search for the Indian's knife 
aiid both reached it at the same moment, Morgan obtaining a 
slight hold on its handle, while his opponent caught it firmly 
by the blade. The Indian's hold was much the best, but Mor- 
gan neutralized this advantage by grinding the Indian's finger 
between his jaws with greater force than ever, and while he 
was raving and squirming with pain, the white man gave a sud- 
den jerk, and got possession of the weapon. The savage now 
sprang to his feet, drawing Morgan after him, and made the 
most frantic efforts to break away. 

Morgan, however, held on with his teeth, and made a quick 
stroke at the Indian's side with his knife. Striking a rib he 
was compelled to make another stroke, this time penetrating 
the ji bdomen, info which Morgan thrust the knife, blade and 
uindle. The Indian fell, and Morgan made his way to the 
house, where he dropped exhausted upon the floor. The neigh- 



horhood was spoedily aroused, and goinp- in pursuit of the 
wounded savage, they found a broad trail of blood, from where 
he had fallen, to a tree-top near at hand. 

Here he was found. He had succeeded in withdrawing the 
knife from his wound, which he was dressing, at their approach, 
witii the stolen apron, that had proven so fatal to him. With 
the hypocrisy of his race, his lips were drawn into a pleasant 
grin, and putting out his hand, he exclaimed, 'how de do, brud- 
der, glad to see you, brudder!' A borderer, slipping up to him, 
refused his hand, and sank his tomahawk into his brain, after 
which he was promptly scalped." 

David Morgan by his last wife, had nine children, the oldest 
named Zachariah, also David and Daniel that we have an account 
of, also a sister, Sarah, who married Robert Mcllvaine, who in turn 
liad eleven cliildren, and large numbers of this name are found in 
West Moreland and Washington county, Pennsylvania, descendants 
from this family. We find Zachariah, the oldest, commanding a 
small company in the battle of Point Pleasant in October, 1774. The 
son David went to Kentucky, and at the time of his death, 1813, rep- 
resented Floyd county in the State Legislature. The son Daniel em- 
igrated to North Carolina and thence to Alab,aiiia. It is probable 
that General John H. Morgan of confederate fame, who is said to be 
a distant relative of General Daniel Morgan, descended from one of 
the sons of David Morgan, very probably from the son Daniel, as he 
emigrated to the locality where the confederate chieftain was born. 
Zachariah Morgan emigrated to Madison county, Kentucky, in 1786 
(See Collins Ky. Vol. 2.) Charles Rolla Morgan served under Gener- 
al Clarke in the Kaskaskia, and Vincennes Expedition, with the 
rank of Sergeant, and was allotted land in the Clarke Grant (See 
English's History N. W.) Ralph Morgan, from whom the writer's 
family descended, followed the vocation of surveyor after the Peace 
of 17(53. He was with Captain Bullitt's party that was sent out by 
Governor Dunmore, of Virginia, in 1773, and assisted* in large 
surveys near the present sites of Covington and Louisville, Ken- 
tucky. Owing to the impending Indian war, this party at the re- 
quest of Governor Dunmore, was escorted by Captain Daniel Boone 
and others through the interior of Kentucky and the Clinch River 
settlements back to Williamsburg, Virginia, in August, 1774. 

The writer has no official record, but it is certain (See Western 
Annals, Perkins, 1847) that both Ralph Morgan and his cousin, Dan- 
iel Boone, participated in the battle of Point Pleasant, October 10, 
1774. After this battle, the army at once crossed the Ohio river and 
joined the main army under Lord Dunmore, and advanced to the In- 
dian towns, where the treaty was made, at which Logan, the Mingo 
Chief, delivered his celebrated speech. At the close of this war, 



Ralph Morgan returned to his father's home who, by this time, was 
living on the Monongahela river, near Red Stone Fort, in what is 
now West Moreland county, Pennsylvania, where he died in the year 
1791, and is buried in an old family graveyard on the land once owned 
by him. A rough flat stone at the head of a tomb with the name, 
Morgan, only on it, is still standing. 

We cannot locate the whereabouts from this time of Ralph Mor- 
gan, until 1778, when he went to visit his relatives in North Carolina 
and journeyed from there to Boonesborough, Kentucky, via Cum- 
berland Gap, arriving at Boonesborough January 17th, 1779. During 
the early spring, he assisted his relatives in planting their spring 
crops, nearly everyone at the Fort being in someway related tohim. 
He joined Captain John Holder's Company and took part in Colonel 
Bowman's Expedition against the Indian town of Chilicothe, that 
started April 13th, 1779, returning and dispersing May 27th, 1779. As 
is well known, this expedition met with defeat, but killed twenty- 
seven Indians and captured one hundred and seventy-six horses and 
other valuable plunder consisting of kettles, robes, etc. One strik- 
ing incident, very interesting to the writer, was the price obtained 
for the plunder. Three-gallon kettles brought at this sale, one-half 
as much as a hoi'se, $27.50 in continental money and $12.00 in Span- 
ish Milled Dollars; one 2% gallon cast-iron teakettle brought at this 
sale, $18.00, Spanish Milled Dollars. All the plunder was sold at 
public vendue and the proceeds divided among members of the Ex- 
pedition. A member of this Expedition relates that "we were allow- 
ed only a peck of parched corn each and received some public beef 
at Lexington, we were all volunteers and found ourselves." For an 
account of the expedition and names of Kentucky people who par- 
ticipated, see Collins' Kentucky History. This proved to be the 
most disastrious to the early Kentucky settlers of any they had 
theretofore engaged in. While it gave a momentary respite to In- 
dian depredations, it made it impossible to make the Detroit Cam- 
paign, projected by General Clarke, who depended on this force to 
enable him to capture Detroit, which would have at once put an end 
to the Indian war and saved thousands of lives and seven years of 
Indian massacre in Kentucky. This force had been ordered to re- 
inforce Clarke's forces, but in disobedience of command, made this 
raid. 

We can find no trace of Ralph Morgan being in Kentucky from 
September, 1779 until June, 1782. The writer's grandfather, Abel 
Morgan, always claimed to the writer that his father, Ralph Mor- 
gan, served under General Greene in the Campaign of 1781, which 
is no doubt correct. The nearest and most official data is that one 



Captain Morfjan, of Virginia, coiiimandinQ,- the pickets at, the open- 
ing of the Battle of Hohkirk's Hill, April 2oth, 1781, but neither the 
War Office at Washington, T>. C. nor the records in Virginia Libra- 
ry at Richmond can identify this person other than just "CAPTAIN 
MORGAN OF VIRGINIA." The writer remembers having seen in 
the possession of his grandfather, Abel Morgan, a land warrant for 
1440 acres of land, which contained a recital thatsaid land was grant- 
ed to Ralph Morgan, of Virginia, by that State, in consideration for 
military services. This warrant was given by Abel Morgan to Jas. 
H. Lane, M. C. at that time, from the Fourth Congressional District 
of Indiana. Said warrant was never returned. Congressman Lane 
was to endeavor to obtain some congressional action on it, but on re- 
peated inquiries from the writer's father to him, after he had remov- 
ed to Kansas, claimed that it had been lost. There are quite a num- 
ber of descendants of Abel Morgan, who remember having seen this 
warrant, now living, this April, 1909. 

We next find Ralph Morgan in Kentucky in July, 1782. His 
name appears as serving under Colonel Logan, who was with this 
command, as visiting the Battle Ground of Blue Licks, August23rd, 
1782, and assisting in burying the dead. This battle was fought 
August 19th, 1782. Sometime in 1884, he was married to Mrs. Pris- 
cilla Douglas, whose maiden name was Bryan. She is said to be a 
niece of Mrs. Daniel Boone. Her husband, William Douglas, was 
killed by the Indians. August 15th, 1782, in a cornfield adjoining 
Bryan's Station, in attempting to enter the Fort with the reinforce- 
ments from Boone's Station. The newly married couple made their 
home for the next seven or eight years at Boone's and Holder's Sta- 
tions, he following his vocation of surveying, locating large tracts of 
land on the percentage or contract basis, usually getting one-half. 
In this way, he acquired large tracts of land in Montgomery, Bath 
and adjoining counties. Six or seven Kentucky histories contain 
accounts of Surveyor Morgan, of Boonesborough, while Collins re- 
fers to S. Morgan as being employed by Simon Kenton to locate some 
large warrants for him in March, 1786, and of his applying to Kenton 
for supplies for his crew and receiving the laconic reply, that he had 
no supplies for him, and that he would give him a sound flogging the 
first time he saw him. We have no data as to whether he kept his 
promise or not. The last mention of Ralph Morgan in history is an 
account of his appearance as a witness in a land contest in 1804, in- 
volving the title to the land on the present site of the city of Lex- 
ington, Kentucky. 

Ralph Morgan had four children as far as the writer can ascer- 
tain : Abel, RoUa, Sarah and Priscilla. Priscilla and Sarah mar- 



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riod brothers— John and William McCullouoh, and from tiieso have 
sprung large numbers of descendants of this name, a number of whom 
reside in the vicinity of West Port, Indiana. 

In the summer of 1792, two forts or stockades were built on Slate 
Creek, named Morgan's and Gilmore's Stations respectively, and 
were occupied and corn raised in what is now Montgomery county, 
Kentucky, but owing to prowling bands of Indians and the remote- 
ness to other forts, three men being killed, they were abandoned in 
September of the same year, the settlers returning to Boone's and 
Bryan's Stations. In February, 1793, six families, in all twenty-sev- 
en persons, again occupied Morgan's Station ; Ralph Morgan's fam- 
ily being one. During the last days of March, Ralph Morgan and 
wife took four pack-horses and went to Boonesborough to get their 
household goods, leaving their two oldest children, David Douglas 
and Abel Morgan, at the fort. On April 1st, Easter Monday, say the 
Historians, at 10 a. m., 1793, the men all being out looking after the 
planting of their crops, no man about the fort except one, and he old 
and infirm, the gates wide open, thirty-five Indians rushed in and 
captured the fort, killing the old man above named, and one woman 
who was unable to travel, and carried off the remainder, nineteen 
persons, as prisoners, after setting fire to the fort. David Douglas 
and his half-brother, Abel Morgan, the former twelve years of age 
and the latter less than eight, at the time the rush was made on the 
fort, were playing in Slate Creek, and on hearing the yells of the In- 
dians and the screams of women and children, at once fled for their 
lives pursued by four Indians. The boys knew of a large standing 
sycamore tree, hollow at the bottom, which they ran to and quickly 
entered, and there hid, standing on rotten portions of the tree until 
their pursuers had passed and repassed to their party, when they 
came out and made their way to Boonesborough and rejoined their 
parents. On the alarm being given, pursuit was made, which the 
Indians discovered, and massacred such of their prisoners as Avere 
unable to keep up in their rapid retreat. The pursuit was abandon- 
ed, but the captives were restored after Wayne's Treaty two years 
later. 

The two brothers lie buried side by side in a country graveyard, 
not more than eight feet apart, about five miles west of Greensburg, 
Decatur county, Indiana. The writer visited their graves in Febru- 
ary, 1909, and copied the following inscriptions from their head- 
stones: 

"David Douglas, Born Nov. 9, 1781. Died Jan. 23, 1861." 
"Abel Morgan, Born March 14, 1786. Died July 16, 1863." 
In 1796, at the close of Indian hostilities, Ralph Morgan rebuilt 



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(ho block house and stocka,d<>, and in addition, a. larj^o stone iiouso 
inside the stockade, in which he lived until the time of his death. 
The exact time of his death is not known, but was about 1809. He 
and his wife are buried in a graveyard near his old fort. I am in- 
formed by George M. Ewing, of Greensburg, Indiana, one of his de- 
scendants, that the old stone house is occupied and still standing 
where it was built by Ralph Morgan in 1796. 

About the year 1807, Abel Morgan, the writer's grandfather, was 
married to Sarah Howard, daughter of James Howard. Said James 
Howard was a soldier of the Revolution, as the following will show : 

"War Department, Adjutant General's Office, 
Washington, D. C, Feb. 11, 1909. 
The records show tliat one James Howard, of Mary- 
land, served as a private in Capt. William Henderson's 
Company, Col. Daniel Morgan's Rifle Regiment, Conti- 
nental Troops, Revolutionary War. His name first ap- 
pears without remark on the Company Pay Roll for July 
1777, and is last borne on an undated Pay Roll of a part 
of the Company for the period from December I, 1777, to 
expiration of service, fifteen days being allowed for going 
home, the Roll showing he served six months. This Reg- 
iment was organized about June, 1777, and was composed 
of men selected from the army at large. The records of 
this office also show that one James Howard served in 
Captain Archibald Anderson's Company, 2nd Maryland 
Regiment Continental Troops commanded by Lieutenant 
Colonel Thomas Woolford, Revolutionary War ; his name 
first appears on a Company Muster Roll for December, 
1777. Dated Jan. 6, 1778, which shows him sick in hospi- 
tal. And it appears on the Company Muster Roll for 
Feb 1778, with remark, 'Sick in Maryland.' He is shown 
to have enlisted for three years, or during the war. but 
neither the date of his enlistment, nor the termination of 
liis service, has been found of record, but he evidently 
served until the close of the war. 

(Signed) A. Ainsworth, 

The Adjutant General." 

The official statement that these men were selected to serve in 
Colonel Daniel Morgan's Rifle Regiment from the army at large led 
the writer to think he was in the army at tiie time the Regiment was 
raised. On applying to the Honorable Commissioner of Pensions at 
Washington, D. C, his conjecture proved correct. Beside his con- 
tinental service as above stated, he served six months in 1775, in 
James Clinton's New York Regiment; in 1776, he served five months 
in Captain Jackson's Company, James Clinton's New York Regi- 
ment, and in 1777, he served six months in Captain Potter's Com- 
pany, Colonel Smith's Virginia Regiment, which brought him up to 
June 1777, when he went into the Continental service, first in Mor- 



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p:ans Riflo Corps and then in 2nd Maryland nntil the close of the 
war. This Regiment wiien discharged, was naked, penniless, and 
without food, and the men were only enabled to reach their homes 
in Maryland by keeping together and impressing or rather seizing 
subsistence to keep from starvation. James Howard was in the fol- 
lowing battles: Long Island, Trenton, Princeton, Bemis Heights, 
Stillwater, Stony Point, Monmouth, Camden, Cowpens, Guilford, 
Hobkirk's Hill, Ninety-six and Utaw Springs. He applied for pen- 
sion December 3rd, 1818 and his claim was allowed. Residence, 
Montgomery county, Kentucky. He died October 4th, 1835, aged 
eighty years. He married a second wife in Montgomery county, 
Kentucky, Mrs. Rhoda Deboard. She was allowed a pension on an 
application executed December 24th, 1858. While aresident of Bath 
county, Kentucky, she died in 1891, aged 104 years. (James How- 
ard, c t f. Number 6953— issued February 10th, 1819, under Act Mar. 
18th, 1818. Kentucky Agency.) In 1787, James Howard came to 
Kentucky and made his home at Estill Station until March 17, 1796, 
and located his military land warrants on Slate Creek, where he af- 
terwards built Howard's Mill. He was a weaver by profession. 
Here he lived until his death. 

Abel Morgan, by his wife, Sarah Howard Morgan, had five chil- 
dren, to-wit: Lydia Morgan, Ralph Morgan, Julian Morgan, Olevia 
Morgan and Martha Morgan. Lydia married Patrick Ewing; Ralph 
never married; Julian, born April 18th, 1815, married Samuel Gates 
Daily; Olevia married, first Killis McGinnis, second, Jesse Green, 
and third, Abel Anderson; and Martha married James King. 

Abel Morgan's wife, Sarah Howard, died about the year 1821. 
Later he married a second wife, but they disagreed and he became 
dissipated and squandered his entire means left him by his father, 
Ralph Morgan. He hadn't the slightest idea of values, but bartered 
his lands for mere trifles. He came home late at night after one of 
his foolish land sales, and the next morning, his wife arising to get 
breakfast, discovered cats on the gate-posts, smoke-house and on the 
eaves of the house— in fact, cats everywhere. Becoming alarmed, 
she aroused him and told him the whole place was covered with cats 
where dogs had treed them. He calmly explained to her that he had 
sold a piece of land the previous evening and had taken the first 
payment in cats. The writer has listened to him by the hour nar- 
rating his early life and that of his father. His hatred of the Indian 
race was intense. He invariably called them savages and many 
times he eiiipluisized the statement that "the only good savages were 
the dead ones." No wonder, for anyone who searches the early an- 
nals of Kentucky, as th.- writer has for the past eight months, must 



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be fully eonvin(!0(l that it was rip^htly named tlie "dark and bloody 
ground." 

This completes the article undertaken by the writer. The con- 
tinuation of the Daily Genealogy will be found in the (Jates History. 
The following- volumes were examined and data taken therefrom in 
the preparation of this article: "Daniel Morgan" by Graham, 1856. 
Marshall's "Kentucky" 1822. Collins' "Kentucky" 1874. "Glory of 
America" Dixon, 1838. "Annals of North Carolina" Petree, 1804. 
"Sketches of Western Adventures" McClung, 1832. ''Ye Olden 
Time" Neville, 1846. "Sketches of History in the West" Hall, 1835. 
"Events in Indian History" 1842. "Boone and the Hunters of Ken- 
tucky" Bogart. 1854. "Pioneer Biography" McBride, 1869 "Lee's 
Memoirs" R. E. Lee, 1851. "History of Valley of Ohio" Butler, 1806. 
"History of Indiana and Northwest Ter." English, 1897. "Conquer- 
ing the Wilderness" Triplett, 1883. "Battles of the American Rev- 
olution" Carrington, 1876. Bancroft's "History of the United States" 
1870. "Western Annals" Perkins, 1847. Records in the Adjutant 
General's Office of the War Department, Washington, D. C. and the 
Records of the Commissioner of Pension's Office, Washington, D. C. 
The writer has also incorporated herein incidents and facts narrated 
to him by his grandfather, Abel Morgan, and his descendants. 



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